{"id":5761,"date":"2025-07-13T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:30:03","slug":"rinky-hijikata-and-david-pel-lose-to-julian-cash-and-lloyd-glasspool-in-wimbledon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5761\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinky Hijikata and David Pel lose to Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool in Wimbledon final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rinky Hijikata&#8217;s hopes of joining Australian doubles&#8217; illustrious roll of honour at Wimbledon have been dashed after he and his Dutch partner David Pel were soundly beaten in the men&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool had a partisan crowd cheering when they became the first all-British team to lift the Wimbledon men&#8217;s doubles crown since 1936 with their 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The makeshift duo of Hijikata and Pel saved match points in the first and second rounds, as well as in the semifinal on their way to the tournament decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hijikata described it as a &#8220;dream come true&#8221; to play in the showpiece final, while Pel lightheartedly revealed to the Centre Court crowd the nature of his unlikely partnership with the Australian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t even meet before the tournament,&#8221; Pel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I mean, it was our first time speaking on the day the tournament started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-12\/live-updates-wimbledon-womens-final-swiatek-vs-anisimova\/105525396\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u015awi\u0105tek beats Anisimova in just 57 minutes to win Wimbledon title<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Iga \u015awi\u0105tek has blitzed Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in just 57 minutes to claim her first Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Pel served five double faults and was broken three times, while Hijikata did his best to hold the partnership together on court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Cash and Glasspool never looked back after they were gifted an early break thanks to a poor service game from Pel and subsequently eased through the opening set with minimum fuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Britons comfortably won the second-set tiebreak to seal the title in one hour and 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hijikata was the fifth Australian to reach the men&#8217;s doubles final in the last 10 editions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He only teamed up with Pel at the start of the tournament when they were originally included in the field as reserves, until another pair&#8217;s withdrawal allowed them a late call-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hijikata, who won the 2023 Australian Open title with Jason Kubler, called his All England Club adventure a &#8220;crazy ride&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been so much fun playing with David,&#8221; Hijikata said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;He&#8217;s brought such a great energy on the court. He&#8217;s made it very easy for me out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a dream come true to be playing on Centre Court. A bit shattered, but it was a lot of fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rinky Hijikata&#8217;s hopes of joining Australian doubles&#8217; illustrious roll of honour at Wimbledon have been dashed after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6152,6153,4479,6154,6155,6151,99,428,96],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-david-pel","tag-doubles","tag-final","tag-julian-cash","tag-lloyd-glasspool","tag-rinky-hijikata","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}